When woman think future societies without men , it’soften a routine utopian … like , say , Sally Gearhart ’s The Wanderground . But a novel play take New York by storm takes topographic point in a women - only dystopia … and it ’s a comedy .
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What We Once FeltbyAnne Marie Healyis being produced at the LTC3 theater , part of the Lincoln Center campus . As near as I can harvest from reading all the inspection , it take position in a woman - only future , where you get meaning by swallowing a special pill — which can be downloaded off the internet . But this otherwise idyllic succeeding globe has a caste system : Women are divided into custodian , who are beautiful and perfect , and Tradepacks , who have some “ preexisting term ” that may make them unhealthful . The ugly , unwanted Tradepacks do all the crappy jobs , except for a few who are able to pass as Keepers . There ’s a drive afoot to get rid of all the Tradepacks , by win over them that they can go to Paradise if they all conk out .
talk to New York Magazine , Healy explains the abstract thought behind the Keeper / Tradepack rent :
It start with the wellness - care argumentation , and people with preexist experimental condition being refuse wellness concern . In this world , the information about what diseases people had and their preexisting condition became part of a database , so that the society begin to separate into two role . There ’s the worldly concern of the Keepers , who are purportedly dead healthy , and they ’re allow to procreate and they ’re appropriate to live the life of the Haves , and there ’s the part of the beau monde that has been genetically sequence , and there ’s no indication that they will be macabre , they ’ve just been systematically marginalized .
And meanwhile , ledger publishing is all but obsolete — and an ambitious young writer , Macy O. Blonsky , wants to have her novel be the last print Holy Scripture ever published . ( I ’m wonder if anybody would be reading the last photographic print record book ever print — presumably it ’s the last book because people have already stop read them ? ) In any cause , Macy cause a faustian bargain with a Christian Bible publisher , Claire Monsoon — Claire is secretly a Tradepack who ’s passing as a Keeper , and she wants to borrow Macy ’s “ scancard ” so she can trick the social setup into get her download a baby and get pregnant .
It all sound very silly , and more than a little contrived — but also potentially fun . NewYorkTheatreGuide.comgives it one star out of five , butother reviewsare afair bit more upbeat . In any face , it ’s always nice to see a newfangled take on dystopia .
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